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Social Justice And Exponential Functions: Using Pandemic Data To Increase Student Understanding, Jane Friedman Jul 2022

Social Justice And Exponential Functions: Using Pandemic Data To Increase Student Understanding, Jane Friedman

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This paper describes a class activity based on real data about COVID-19 death rates in California. The activity helps students learn about exponential functions while providing an opportunity to integrate social justice concerns into the mathematics classroom.